Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 2, sentence 68
"Come and take it off my shoulders, then," answered Hercules, lifting his club.
Who acts: you, Hercules · What happens: come, take off, answer, lift · To what, where: pair, club · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pygmies., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Hercules), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Come | punct |
| 2 | Come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 take | cc |
| 4 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Come | conj |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 take | obj |
| 6 | off | off | ADP | _ | 4 take | compound:prt |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 shoulders | nmod:poss |
| 8 | shoulders | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 take | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 answered | punct |
| 10 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 answered | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 then | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 answered | punct |
| 13 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Come | advcl |
| 14 | Hercules | Hercules | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 answered | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 lifting | punct |
| 16 | lifting | lift | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 answered | advcl |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 club | nmod:poss |
| 18 | club | club | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lifting | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in a quote | imperative | you not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | take off in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | pair | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past | Hercules | then | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | lift | gerund | Hercules not said here | Hercules's club | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent club=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Project Gutenberg book 976 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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